inexplicable movie cliches

[belboid]

Almost every American car will explode in mid air if driven off a cliff.

that's an environmental device, to stop the petrol spilling everywhere

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I have noticed recently that nobody ever seems to lock their car after getting out.....

 

[belboid]

I have noticed recently that nobody ever seems to lock their car after getting out.....

how would they be able to just jump straight into them and drive off in miliseconds if they were locked?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

how would they be able to just jump straight into them and drive off in miliseconds if they were locked?

It's just not very safety concious is it?

 

[xenon]

Drivers can always find a parking space exactly where they want to stop.

Probably been said but it's always easy to hear important conversations in nightclubs or loud bars. No one says, What?! hold on a fucking minute I can't hear you, let's go outside!

American landline phone's all have the same ringtone.

 

[youngian]

a film that masterfully plays with all the cliches.

If I ever work in film marketing, I might have to steal that.

 

[T & P]

CCTV camera evidence, no matter how crap quality it usually is in real life, always has the ability to be zoomed in to remarkable detail in the movies.

Not only zoom, but change angles and show the incident from multiple points, just as if it wasn't CCTV footage at all, but a movie being filmed.

 

[Miss Caphat]

I think I may have made the same post on the thread years ago, but one that's always irked me is

emotionally disturbed or upset people always sit in a dark room alone by a lamp and slowly turn it off and on, off and on and stare off into space

 

[DaveCinzano]

I think I may have made the same post on the thread years ago, but one that's always irked me is

emotionally disturbed or upset people always sit in a dark room alone by a lamp and slowly turn it off and on, off and on and stare off into space

Cf the 'headclutcher' stock photograph:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/12/visual-cliche-mental-health-slip-through

 

[Santino]

CCTV camera evidence, no matter how crap quality it usually is in real life, always has the ability to be zoomed in to remarkable detail in the movies.

I think the worst example of this was in National Treasure Book of Secrets where Nicholas Cage runs a red light in London to purposefully get caught on a traffic camera so he can get photographed holding up a wooden artifact which he then needed to toss into the river to stop his pursuers getting it (or something). He was confident enough that they could then hack into the traffic cam database to get that photo of him holding his piece of wood inside the car with a secret code etched into it, and, be able to zoom in on that one photo, and reveal the code... which of course is exactly what happened.

yeahhh sure.

That car chase appears to have been sponsored by Fuller's London Pride.

 

[Santino]

This ones so old its biblical: any traitor on the goodies side can only be redeemed through death or severe life-threatening injury

Lando

 

[The Octagon]

Lando

 

[Mumbles274]

People doing cocaine never have to go for a poo, just before or after doing a line

 

[Orang Utan]

People doing cocaine never have to go for a poo, just before or after doing a line

 

[camouflage]

Used to be in horror-movies circa 1970's to 1990s that involved demons or spirits, there'd be at least one trip to the library to look at creepy old books featuring high detail ink-drawings of demons and torture.

this sort of thing...

Now they just use google.

 

[DotCommunist]

Used to be in horror-movies circa 1970's to 1990s that involved demons or spirits, there'd be at least one trip to the library to look at creepy old books featuring high detail ink-drawings of demons and torture.

Now they just use google.

Gile's library of demonaical (or should that be diabolical?) texts which so impressed in the 90s are now just so much book-as-object fetishism